Attribute references

[Jelks Cabaniss]

John Gruber wrote:
>> That is, /every/ header would automaticaly have an id.

> I thought of this prior to released 1.0 publicly, but the problem is
> how Markdown would manage duplicates. You could have input
> structured like this:
> ...
> In which case Markdown would need to assign unique id's to multiple
> <h3>'s which contain the same tag content. 

Not only that, but even if it were doable, I hope the consideration is not
that it should be done *by default*.  I know I wouldn't care much for IDs
sprouting up willy-nilly all over my documents.  When I want IDs, I
explicitly put them there.

(One of these days, we'll be using an XPointer-ish mechanism -- the 4th h2
heading, the heading labelled "foo", the 5th through the 7th sentence of the
3rd paragraph in section 3, etc. -- but we're not there yet.)


/Jelks